Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2971 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the conservation and resources program of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to protection of caves, historic preservation, and Kaho'olawe Island Reserve.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the DLNR and one individual.

Your Committee finds that extending the jurisdiction of the conservation and resources enforcement program of the DLNR is congruent with the current practice of the DLNR.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making clarifying amendments to enhance the intent and making technical nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2971, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2971, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.